DALLAS (AP) — Finalists have been announced in the 2017 Texas Associated Press Broadcasters contest.

The list of finalists was released Wednesday by the TAPB board of directors.

The
awards in actual order of finish — first and second places — will be
announced on Saturday, April 21 at the Texas Associated Press
Broadcasters Awards Banquet at the Headliners Club in Austin. Banquet
registration information will be posted to http://discover.ap.org/contests/texas-broadcast .

Thirty-seven
TV stations and 11 radio stations submitted 789 entries in the 2017
Texas Associated Press Broadcasters contest, which featured newscasts
and sportscast entries from 2017.

The Associated Press is a
not-for-profit news cooperative representing 1,400 newspapers and 5,000
broadcast stations in the United States.

Feature
(Serious): Christopher Connelly, KERA-FM, Dallas, "Just a Piece of
Plastic: Bump Stocks Thrust Tiny Texas Town in Spotlight After Las
Vegas"; Bill Zeeble, KERA-FM, Dallas, "They're Breaking the Law and
Using Marijuana, but they Want to Help Their Daughter."